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We’re spotlighting work in the Tan-Yang Center for Autism Research at MIT, where Guoping Feng and his team are developing a gene therapy for Phelan-McDermid syndrome, offering new hope for children and families affected by this devastating disorder.
USA Today spotlights Yang Center for Bionics Co-Director Hugh Herr's efforts to connect bionic limbs to nerves and muscles, creating a natural extension of the body.
usatoday.com/story/news/2026…
How does the brain know when drinking is quenching thirst 🧠🚰? Introduced by Yang Brain-Body Center Director Polina Anikeeva, Prof. Sung-Yon Kim @syk_net of Seoul National University discussed his research with the MIT community at the Yang Brain-Body Center Seminar on Oct 13.
Researchers from Yang ICoN Center, including ICoN postdoc fellow @qianli_liao, were successful in designing a self-organizing computational neural network that approaches learning like a brain — adjusting itself as it learns without outside input.
news.mit.edu/2026/how-artifi…
Congratulations to K. Lisa Yang ICoN Postdoctoral Fellow @devarda_a, who has been named one of the 2026 @statnews #STATWunderkinds! 👏🎉
🔗 Read more: statnews.com/wunderkinds/and…
Join us next week for the K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center at MIT seminar with Professor Sung-Yon Kim @syk_net from Seoul National University. We hope to see you there!
💬 How Does Drinking Rapidly Quench Thirst?
🗓️ Tuesday, October 13 | 3-4 PM
🔗 yangtan.mit.edu/about-us/our…
Recap of the Alumni Talk Series: @NogaZaslavsky gave career advice at an intimate lunch with the Collective community and discussed her research 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱: 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘀𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻, 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗹𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀! 💬
Join us for the Yang Tan Collective Alumni Talk Series featuring Noga Zaslavsky, a former ICoN Postdoc Fellow; she’s currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University. ⬇️
🔗 For more information, please visit: yangtan.mit.edu/about-us/our…
Former Yang ICoN Fellow and current assistant professor in the CMU School of Computer Science @aran_nayebi talks about neuroscience + AI in Does Compute, a podcast presented by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and GeekWire Studios.
youtube.com/watch?v=-U7S6lfT…
A gene therapy developed by Guoping Feng & team at the Tan-Yang Center for Autism Research is now in clinical trials for Phelan-McDermid syndrome. In this talk at the @Phelan_McDermid Family Conference, Feng shares the science behind the therapy ⬇️
🔗📺 bit.ly/4xyDz7M
Watch K. Lisa Yang ICoN Graduate Fellow Davy Deng discuss the topic of mind-uploading (or whole brain emulation) and how C. elegans, a 1 mm worm with an impressive resume, contributes to it in his TEDxMIT talk “What does mind-uploading actually require?”
youtube.com/watch?v=gyDwkCBK…
Yang Tan Collective co-founder Hock Tan was recently featured as a prominent leader in TIME’s list of 100 Most Influential People in AI (TIME100 AI 2026). Congratulations! 👏
🔗 Read more about his work and partnerships: time.com/collection/time100-…
Ming Liu, a Yang ICoN Postdoctoral Fellow, imaged a cell's ultrastructure with transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to be able to view essential organelles.
🔬 Wang lab and Dorkenwald lab at MIT + Lee lab at HMS. Images were created together w/ Liu and a Harvard grad student⬇️
What if we could engineer scientific revolutions rather than wait for them to happen? Yang Tan Collective’s @eboyden3 and Denisa Lepadatu explore a provocative new model for accelerating discovery in their Substack article.
📚 Read more: uniconq.substack.com/p/the-g…
Ed Boyden & his team, including Zeguan Wang ('25-'26 J. Douglas Tan Postdoc Fellow), invented a microscope that can capture high-res images of a brain’s electrical impulses from individual neurons—allowing researchers to further study how the brain works in varied situations. ⬇️
🔗 read more: yangtan.mit.edu/news-stories…
📚 read the study: Voltage imaging of neurons distributed across entire brains of larval zebrafish; nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
Image courtesy of the researchers
Co-authors @amoswinter and Vijay Govindarajan introduce & discuss their new book 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 (released on August 11 🎉) on @HarvardBiz IdeaCast; “The Innovation Strategy Most Companies Miss” ep 1091.
🎧 Listen: hbr.org/podcast/2026/08/the-…
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